Threat of nuclear war ‘is a sin,’ World Council of Churches’ chief tells economic leadersPosted Jan 22, 2018 |
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[Anglican Communion News Service] The general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, will take an anti-nuclear message with him when he travels Tuesday to Davos, Switzerland, for a meeting of the World Economic Forum. Writing in advance of the meeting, Tveit says that he “can think of no greater antithesis to this vision of shared life and responsibility, no greater obscenity against it, than the continued existence of and political and social support for nuclear weapons … It is time to say together that this is wrong. It is time to call it a sin, both using and having nuclear weapons.”
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